Can you identify this celestial body in the picture NASA shared?

NASA has released pictures of a celestial body painted in a rainbow of psychedelic colours. Before you start thinking it looks totally alien, here is the answer - it is the dwarf planet Pluto.

No, Pluto is not really such a riot of colours, if anything it is largely cold and greyish. The colours were given by scientists of New Horizons - the interplanetary space probe - to show the subtle colour differences between distinct regions of the planet.

"Pluto has a complex, varied surface with jumbled mountains reminiscent of Europa ( Jupiter's moon), networks of carved-out valleys, old, heavily cratered terrain sitting right next to new, smooth icy plains, and even what might be wind-blown dunes," NASA said in its post on Instagram.

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NASA launched the New Horizons Probe in 2006. It reached Pluto - 5.05 billion kilometers away from Earth- in 2014, and studied the dwarf planet, before completely leaving the neighbourhood in 2016 and heading for the Kuiper Belt in the outer reaches of our solar system.